Colorado's Note

Dear Colorado
Think I'm okay today
I remember mountains
    but they'd rather forget.
And I think I'm all right.
I remember nights to sunrise; time spent on your highways
And fingertips remember the map--
--LIKED tracing down the map
  like faces remember winter wind
Colorado, I'm doing fine.
Surviving in the elsewhere
And making up some elsewhen
And some elseone
Don't forget I've been to you before
Don't forget I've been to you before when you harden up your borders.
I'm so much sorrier than you know...
And you know you should be too.
Dear Colorado
Are you okay tonight?
I know how it gets out there
By Kansas and Nebraska
Not much for conversation.
And you are thought of much.
Are we okay, Colorado?
  Don't forget I've been to you before
  When you harden up your borders.

 

(October 15, 2009)